"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." ---Bertrand Russell (1907) Rob Gluck

"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)

9) Lastly, if you want a mental workout, here is Richard Wiseman's puzzle for this Friday:
"Can you create a 10-digit number, where the first digit is how many
zeros in the number, the second digit is how many 1s in the number etc.
until the tenth digit which is how many 9s in the number?"

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